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Old 11-20-2011, 09:29 AM
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Default RE: The new Tornado sport jet

Thanks guys for all the kind words.
Yes the new V3 Tornado is composite. The airplane has significant changes. The booms and horizontal stabilizer are fiberglass and very heavily carbon fiber reinforced. The fuselage has carbon fiber reinforcement in the nose and tail. The wings are built up but they are significantly modified from the V2 Tornado. The wing are fully carbon fiber reinforced and cross braced through out the wing with ply. The landing gear blocks are all ply and the hole gear area is carbon reinforced. The servos are all internally mounted as well. The landing gears are also about 1 1/2 inches shorter through out.
And yes the rumor of Jet Central is true we have teamed to provide the best quality product at the best price. We are expecting to release the new V3 Tornado about the middle of February and we will be packaging it with a Rabbit 100 23lb of raw power or the New Bee with 16lb of thrust for those that want a nice Sunday flier.
The V3 Tornado will be made in Two color schemes a yellow, black and gray scheme designed by Rob Lynch from House of Power Hobbies and the stock navy trainer scheme.